The role of environmental factors in beginning teachers’ professional learning related to differentiated instruction     

Debbie De Neve  Geert Devos 《School Effectiveness & School Improvement》2016,27(4):357-379

Little research has investigated factors that facilitate beginning teachers’ participation in professional learning activities related to differentiated instruction (DI). This study examines environmental factors for DI learning activities in a sample of 272 beginning teachers from 72 primary schools. Multilevel analyses show that teacher education, reflective dialogue, deprivatized practice, educational type, and diversity in student population are related to beginning teachers’ use of DI learning activities (i.e., learning in interaction and changes in practice). As such, the findings revealed that beginning teachers’ participation in such activities may depend on a multitude of factors. Several suggestions regarding these factors are made. First, teacher education can provide foundational knowledge of DI applications. Second, schools can enable teachers to have in-depth conversations with colleagues and provide opportunities to observe good teaching practices. Lastly, alternative schools and schools with diverse student populations can inspire other schools to enhance participation in DI learning activities.  相似文献   

Instruments for school self-evaluation: lost in translation? A study on respondents’ cognitive processing     

Jerich Faddar  Jan Vanhoof  Sven De Maeyer 《Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability》2017,29(4):397-420

School self-evaluation (SSE), as an important leverage for quality assurance, often relies on surveys among staff members to collect information on the schools’ functioning. The extent to which respondents cognitively process items as developers intended them determines the cognitive validity of SSE results. However, it is unclear what problems occur in respondents’ cognitive processes which lead to cognitively invalid SSE results and how respondents’ positions in the school affects these cognitive processes. This study draws on cognitive interviews conducted with 20 teachers and principals to understand their thinking process while answering an SSE survey. Cognitively invalid results were analysed using a content analysis to identify problems in respondents’ cognitive processes. Findings showed that respondents experience semantic and syntactical issues when interpreting items. While elaborating, problems were found regarding items’ topic and focus, particularly concerning whom to make a statement about. Issues also emerged in the response stage, especially that the ‘don’t know’ option was not used as intended. Respondents’ positions influence their understanding about whom a statement is required and how self-evident some items are to them. These problems should be taken into account by developers of SSE surveys and other instruments that intend to measure organisational characteristics.  相似文献   

Development of educational software for the teaching of telecommunication engineering by using MATLAB     

J. M. Rodríguez  V. González  J. E. González  C. Rueda  L. De Haro  C. Martín-Pascual 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2001,26(4):361-374

The characteristics of a set of software tools developed for teaching are exposed in this work. This package is designed for telecommunication engineering students in order to facilitate the study of applied electromagnetism and communication theory concepts: theoretical guided propagation, practical training in radiation and radiocommunication laboratory. The programs are made under a MATLAB environment which provides great capabilities for graphical purposes. The programs are designed as user-friendly and interactive tutorials and they can be used as a powerful tool for improving the teaching process.  相似文献   

The dynamics of ethnic identity and student life     

Sandra Beekhoven  Uulkje De Jong  Hans Van Hout 《Higher Education in Europe》2004,29(1):47-65

Students entering higher education need to integrate themselves into a new study community. Those coming from minority ethnic backgrounds may experience this phase more intensely since they may feel themselves to be different or consider that they are being treated differently. This article approaches ethnic identity as a dynamic concept. The differences characterizing students with varying ethnic self‐definitions are explored as subjective factors that are important for good study progress. Finally, study progress after one year is analyzed.  相似文献   

人本管理的创新特征   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

黄德良 《华东师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2001,33(4):119-123

人本管理是现代管理的创新重点和发展趋势。人的全面自由发展是人本管理目标的新定位。人本管理角色的新转换集中到一点，就是充分地尊重人，恢复人的奠严，颇具特色的自我管理是人本管理运行的新机制。  相似文献   

On the excitability of a class of positive continuous time-delay systems     

M. De la Sen   《Journal of The Franklin Institute》2009,346(7):705-729

This article is on the excitability of positive linear time-invariant systems subject to internal point delays. It is proved that excitability independent of delay is guaranteed if an auxiliary delay-free system is excitable. Necessary and sufficient conditions for excitability and transparency independent of the delay size are formulated in terms of the parameterization of the dynamics and control matrices. Some particular results are also given for the properties being dependent on the size of the point delay and for any possible finite values of the delay. The same formulation is given in parallel in terms of strict positivity of a matrix of an associate system obtained from the influence graph of the original system. The excitability and transparency properties are both testable through simple algebraic tests involving a moderate computational effort that is directly related to the system's order.  相似文献   

Hybrid clustering for validation and improvement of subject-classification schemes     

Frizo Janssens  Lin Zhang  Bart De Moor  Wolfgang Glnzel 《Information processing & management》2009,45(6):683-702

A hybrid text/citation-based method is used to cluster journals covered by the Web of Science database in the period 2002–2006. The objective is to use this clustering to validate and, if possible, to improve existing journal-based subject-classification schemes. Cross-citation links are determined on an item-by-paper procedure for individual papers assigned to the corresponding journal. Text mining for the textual component is based on the same principle; textual characteristics of individual papers are attributed to the journals in which they have been published. In a first step, the 22-field subject-classification scheme of the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is evaluated and visualised. In a second step, the hybrid clustering method is applied to classify the about 8300 journals meeting the selection criteria concerning continuity, size and impact. The hybrid method proves superior to its two components when applied separately. The choice of 22 clusters also allows a direct field-to-cluster comparison, and we substantiate that the science areas resulting from cluster analysis form a more coherent structure than the “intellectual” reference scheme, the ESI subject scheme. Moreover, the textual component of the hybrid method allows labelling the clusters using cognitive characteristics, while the citation component allows visualising the cross-citation graph and determining representative journals suggested by the PageRank algorithm. Finally, the analysis of journal ‘migration’ allows the improvement of existing classification schemes on the basis of the concordance between fields and clusters.  相似文献   

情报学研究生教育回顾与前瞻     

张德  关家麟 《情报科学》2009,27(1)

本文对中国科学技术信息研究所情报教育,特别是情报学研究生教育进行了回顾、总结和展望.同时也对中国情报学研究生教育事业30年来的发展做了简要回顾和思考.  相似文献   

闻一多是中国共产党的亲密战友和共产主义战士--纪念闻一多诞辰100周年     

洪德铭 《云南师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2000,32(2):19-23

本文是纪念闻一多先生诞辰100周年的文章,分为两个部分,第一部分是作者回忆闻一多在西南联大支持学生民主运动,与中国共产党的接触,作者亲眼目睹,并与闻一多有过接触;第二部分论述闻一多永远值得后人学习的五个方面.  相似文献   

Higher Education and Graduate Employment in the Netherlands   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Jim Allen  Petra Boezerooy  Egbert De Weert  & Rolf Van Den Velden 《European Journal of Education》2000,35(2):211-219

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